Butchering on cardboard
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Heym SR20
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Probably more to do with cardboard is everywhere these days of Amazon etc. its clean. It protects the work surface, it captures any blood and when finished you roll it up and stick it in the bin / recycling. Probably better than rolling out a sheet of plastic, or using endless amounts of cleaning fluids etc.
Seems like a pretty good idea.
Seems like a pretty good idea.
Leupsak
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I would guess its for convenience as they may not have access to more appropriate tables and boards etc. why-are-cardboard-boxes-bad-for-food-safety-in-the-kitchen
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Freeforester
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As if it is a good idea, lol!
kieran222
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Not sure how that fits in with food hygiene. I always wash my butchering table down after and again before butchering and disinfect before use. With cardboard you have no idea where it has been and you won't see bacteria. I can see that it would be convenient and kind to your knife but that's the only plus side imo. I definitely wouldn't use it.
Food prep on cardboard? ... Only like this.... Ginsters micro wave pasties Google Image Result for https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/devo-images/873c24a9-e206-7c20-5bbd-b581c4d5e00c.jpg
Probably more to do with protecting the work tops, with regards to hygiene and your own consumption you need to look at the level of risk ? for example what was transported in the box to begin with, ive sold literally tones of chicken's and every one came unwrapped in a carboard box.
For the record: that’s not a pasty
I think this is virgin cardboard rather than old boxes which would be very poor. I wonder if new cardboard like newspaper is actually very clean in terms of bacterial contamination.
Well if the concern was so high then the question would answer itself, as for using newspaper i would not class that as carboard myself. Cardboard box's would be dependant on its previous use.
But i am only thinking very occasional use to protect the wifes work top from scratches from knifes and meat saw and not butchering weekly.
If it was me i would be using it to protect the work tops
You should see the size of my wife.
Heym SR20
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Thinking about this a little further, i would only use a cardboard box that I know had only contained something inorganic. So fir example the Amazon box that arrives just about every day with yet another bit of clothing, shoes or something else that Mrs or Miss Heym has ordered - (quite why they cannot collate all into one box for one delivery a day beats me).
I certainly wouldn’t use something that had contained any meat product or indeed any food stuffs with bacteria.
I certainly wouldn’t use something that had contained any meat product or indeed any food stuffs with bacteria.
But it is nevertheless purported to be a food item.
By a company from LeicestershireBut it is nevertheless purported to be a food item.
I can't stomach their stuff, too much pepper.
Everything in the world is "contaminated"by bacteria. Newsprint has oil in it which comes off easily.
tikkathreebarrels
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Hold the front page there: are you telling me that ginsters are classified as food? Or is that the cardboard plate?
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